TRAILER FOR ‘REDACTED’ – DEPALMA

This is the latest teaser trailer (here’s an earlier one from YouTube) for Brian DePalma’s Redacted, which plays at the New York Film Festival this month and will be in limited release next month.

I don’t quite know what to make of it yet, apparently it’s about media coverage of the Iraq war. I also have mixed feelings about DePalma, who’s revered as Godlike for directing Scarface and The Untouchables (which are both overrated, or at the very least seem dated now), but also has random crap like Mission to Mars on his resume. I, on the other hand have a pink unicorn on my resume. Bosses like that old-fashioned shit.

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Lance, you may have just pissed off all those rappers they show on MTV Cribs who have their copy of Scarface in some holy shrine made of gold, but I agree 120% on both of those flicks being overrated.

By: Hugh G. Rection

10.04.2007 @ 8:47 AM

I second that emotion. Watching Pacino (and I do like Al) chew the scenery to ribbons was painful. Way, way overrated simply due to its groundbreaking inclusion of torture porn – and look where that lovely trend has brought us today. Thanks, Brian! You fucking jerkoff, nice going.

By: Hugh G. Rection

10.04.2007 @ 8:49 AM

Oh, one other thing – pink unicorns rule.

By: Hunter

10.04.2007 @ 8:52 AM

and I second THAT motion!

By: Chris

10.04.2007 @ 9:01 AM

Scarface is overrated. If they had left another hour and change on the editing room floor, it would have been a lot better.The Untouchables would have been a lot better if Kevin Costner hadn’t been in it.

By: Nominus

10.04.2007 @ 9:04 AM

Never seen Untouchables, but I couldn’t agree more on scarface. Rappers dursted scarface when they say things like "he was a great man, a visionary". Ha. I made plenty of money and was never busted by cops OR killed. So there. And I’m also not from some country named after a member of the Gooding family. Anyone else remember Omar?

By: Nominus

10.04.2007 @ 9:19 AM

So is this a documentary or not? Either way, it’ll be a good movie, so long as it isn’t filled with misinformation. And as long as it doesn’t have a Pro-Israel bias. Yeah, I’m looking at you, Jewish community who I hear populates Hollywood. I did notice one thing that makes it seem undesirable. One of the critic comments/endorsements that flashed up described it as "An Electrical Current". I try to steer clear of those.

By: Charlie Bronze

10.04.2007 @ 9:29 AM

The only scene i remember fondly from the one time i watched Scarface was the scene where Tony’s in the tub watching a nature doc on flamingoes, "Fly pelican, fly." Otherwise i concur with m’learned friends. Overrated. There’s a great essay on De Palma written by Martin Amis in The Moronic Inferno. He doesn’t rate him.

By: jokerswild

10.04.2007 @ 10:29 AM

this looks like sucktitudiness incarnate

By: Koru

10.04.2007 @ 11:22 AM

Hey now, Brian also gave us that cinematic gem, Mission Impossible, which allowed Tom Curise to make enough money to release his human coil and become the psycho alien we all know and love today.